Nanostructured and Advanced Materials

The principal aim of this NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) ”Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology” was to present a contemporary overview of the field of nanostructured and advanced electronic materials.
Nanotechnology is an emerging scientific field receiving significant worldwide attention. On a nanometer scale, materials or structures may possess new and unique physical properties. Some of these are now known to the scientific community, but there may well be many properties not yet known to us, rendering it as a fascinating area of research and a suitable subject for a NATO ASI et another aspect of the field is the possibility for creating meta-stable phases with unconventional properties and the ultra-miniaturization of current devices, sensors, and machines. Such nanotechnological and related advanced materials have an extremely Wide range of potential applications, viz. nanoscale electronics, sensors, optoelectronics, photonics, nano-biological systems, nano-medicine, energy storage systems, etc.